# Manx Primary Source Archive — Transcription

**Source image:** `20260219_125848.jpg`  
**Transcribed:** 2026-02-25 19:26  
**Method:** Automated (Claude Batch API — claude-opus-4-6)

---

No curtesy on the part of your Grace,
and that you will at the same time
state for the information of their Lordships
what are the rights and interests
besides your Graces proportion of the
Revenues of the Customs in the Island,
which Your Grace is disposed to surrender
for such Sum as the Arbitrators may
determine to be a fair equivalent
for them, I have the honor to be

The Duke of Atholl K.T. Signed J. C. Herries

G^t. George Street
18^th. June 1825.

Sir,

I have been honored with your letter
of the 17^th instant, informing me, by
Command of the Lords Commissioners of His
Majesty's Treasury, that their Lordships
are prepared to treat with me for the
purchase of my several rights and interests
adverted to in the Act of Parliament
relating [obscured]